Revolutionizing Drinking Water Safety in Developing Nations with AI-Driven Optics

A seminar and webinar series.

Identify Needs

Webinar I & II, Online Workshop I, and In-person workshop I will be focused on the needs in the developing countries, as identified by the stakeholders on the ground.

Explore solutions

Solutions will be gradually be part of the discussions as we progress from Online Workshop I towards the In-person workshop I culminating with In-person workshop II.

Join hands

Webinar III & IV, Online Workshop II, and In-person workshop II will be focused on sharing solutions, building collaborations, and to identify common interests and shared priorities.

Links for the past activities and summary:

Participants of the workshop in 2024

In-person Workshop II on April 3, 2025 with Jyapu Academy Lalitpur.

| Share your solutions with the stakeholders & potential collaborators |

Program and Zoom Link for the Webinar III (Thursday, 20th Feb, 2025)

Theme: The common problems between high- and low-income countries, novel solutions and collaborations

This webinar in the series will feature researchers from UK and policymaker from Pakistan. We will learn and discuss about exciting new technologies to sense water using "nano-buds" and machine learning techniques, while learning the water quality issues in a common framework between high- and low-income countries with a specific example of collaboration.

Click here for the speaker biography and the abstracts of their talks.

Program

16:00 - 16:05 Introduction
16:05 - 16:25 Er. Shakeel Badshah, Assistant Director, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources

Water Quality and Progress towards SDG 6.1 : Pakistan's experience

16:25 - 17:05 Dr. Baptiste Poursat and Dr. Justin R Spirling, University of Glasgow UK

Decentralised water technologies in Scotland and Nepal: A collaborative effort to develop new decentralised water monitoring technologies

17:05 - 17:20 Discussions

Time: Thursday, 20th Feb, 2025 16:00 - 17:20 NPT Kathmandu

Zoom Link and Meeting ID : https://osa.zoom.us/j/93984134801 Meeting ID: 939 8413 4801

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You can register by filling the following Google Forms (preferred), or, by just emailing to nepal.optica@pinstitute.org with subject "Registration for Technologies for the Future".